American Psycho remake lined up, but who will replace Christian Bale?

American Psycho, the 2000 film based on the 1991 Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name that starred
Christian Bale – aka Batman in The Dark Knight Rises – as serial-killing yuppie Patrick Bateman, could be set for a remake.

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in the original American Psycho

According to an individual with knowledge of the project, studio Lionsgate is working on the low-budget remake.

It’s unclear who will take the Bateman role made famous by Bale, though it’s thought Noble Jones – a second unit director on David Fincher ‘s 2010 Facebook film The Social Network – will write and direct the project.

Reaction to news of the possible remake has been mixed

The original film, set in Manhattan during the Wall Street boom of the late 1980s, was directed by Mary Harron and also starred Willem Dafoe , Reese Witherspoon , Chloe Sevigny and Jared Leto.

American Psycho remake, eh? And?

The remake will apparently place the unhinged investment banker protagonist in contemporary New York City, to see how he ‘would fare in modern-day Gotham’.